Some Hope by Edward St. Aubyn A Trilogy

Some Hope marks the U.S. debut of Edward St. Aubyn, highly acclaimed in the United Kingdom as one of the most original, intelligent, and acerbically witty voices of our time. From Provence to New York to Gloucestershire, through the savageries of a childhood with a tyrannical father and an alcoholic mother, to a young adulthood fraught with dissolute behavior, we follow Patrick Melrose's search for redemption amid a crowd of glittering social dragonflies whose vapidity is the subject of his most stinging and memorable barbs. At once hilarious and deeply moving, Some Hope — originally published in England as three separate novels — is a stunningly authentic depiction of a man's journey to and from the farthest limits of the human gamut.

Unrated Critic Reviews for Some Hope

Kirkus Reviews

We follow Patrick as he visits the funeral home abroad to gloat over the body, then allows himself to indulge in the best smack in the world, fending off the voices that are the evidence of his trauma: “Every thought or hint of a thought took on a personality stronger than his own.” A bad parody ...

Publishers Weekly

Coinciding with the publication of At Last, this omnibus edition shows that St. Aubynâs five Patrick Melrose novels may well constitute one of the most ambitious novel cycles since Anthony Powellâs A Dance to the Music of Time.

The Independent

From time to time, he employs a baroque image that seems to have come from a more elaborate novel: 'the hairdresser arrived at twelve-thirty to rebuild those cliffs of grey hair against which so many upstarts had dashed themselves in vain'.